The ethnic-religious movement of the Gypsy Pentecost churches constitutes a unique anthropological reference to try to understand how religion can be a good way for an ethnic re-definition and a cultural change, as well as to show the symbolic and ritual strategies around ecstatic and charismatic manifestations. In this context, the article analyses two similar logics of appropriation and distribution of charismatic gifts, in connection with the construction and administration of individual and community demands: the gift of languages (glossolalia) and the liberation of spirits (exorcisms).